Etymologies

Examples

Daniel 1: 3, 6-11, 18, although it must be granted that some married persons, that had children, were sometimes called eunuchs, in a general acceptation for courtiers, on account that so many of the ancient courtiers were real eunuchs.

While some transvestites and transsexuals identify as eunuchs, most are men born with deformed genitals, who undergo castration-like operations, while others are effeminate boys disowned by families who must earn their keep through begging.

Those critics who scrupled too much about words he called eunuchs of literature, and to one, who taxed him with writing obscure language in questionable grammar, he said, "Thou art but a Gretna-green match-maker between vowels and consonants!"] 'Twas where the birch and sounding thong are ply'd,

But fully-armed or not, the eunuchs were the most influential clique at court, as spies, agents, and policy-makers; saving the Emperor, the most powerful man in China was undoubtedly Little An, the Chief Eunuch — and he was right under Yehonala's dainty little thumb.